By DR. JOSEPH FRAGER, ARUTZ7 — The Obama administration’s soft approach to Iran’s nuclear program may have done more than simply making a conventional strike more likely. President Obama has had a constant refrain when it comes to Iran – “I’m keeping all options on the table”. The likelihood of President Obama using any kind…
DetailsBy ISRAEL TODAY— Think the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is winding down? Think again. In 2013 alone, one of Judaism’s holiest sites, the traditional tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel, was attacked no fewer than 200 times by Palestinian mobs. Rachel’s Tomb, located just inside Bethlehem, is a highly frequented place of prayer for religious Jews. While…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE— By one of those odd coincidences, I had just finished watching Clint Eastwood’s movie on the rise to power of J. Edgar Hoover when I came across the following commentary, written by J. R. Nyquist in his blog titled, The Time Traveler’s Lesson. It is of an imaginary interrogation by Hoover himself…
DetailsBy RABBI STEVEN PRUZANSKY, ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS — “The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo – for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility. And fewer people voted. But as…
DetailsBy KAY WILSON, THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — (The picture at left is Yassar Arafat embraced by the Revd. Dr. Stephen Sizer, Vicar of Christ Church in Virginian Water, UK) Bound, gagged and barefoot with machetes at our throats, we were pushed through the trees to the site of our execution. I whimpered, “Please don’t…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 35:1 – 38:20, “Vayakhel” (And he assembled …) Haftorah: I Kings 7:40 – 50 New Testament: Hebrews 9:1 – 15 Gospel: Matthew 5:17 – 20, “Al taakshuv” (Do not think …)
DetailsBy RUTH KING, ARUTZ 7— Israel’s former Foreign Minister Abba Eban famously referred to the so-called “’67 borders” as “Auschwitz borders,” provocatively expressing the fears of many Israelis that a return to the 1949 Armistice lines would leave them perilously vulnerable to attack in a neighborhood which has proven all too often to be hostile…
DetailsBy DANIEL GREENFIELD, FRONTPAGEMAG— If the left’s foreign policy these days had a slogan, it would be, “Boycott Israel, not Iran.” The double standard, dishonest as it is ugly, is also the motto of Obama’s foreign policy, which benevolently blesses Iran’s nuclear program with one outstretched hand in the name of peace and chokes concessions…
DetailsBy ARI SOFFER, ARUTZ 7— Former CIA Director James Woolsey has reiterated his call to release Jonathan Pollard, who is now in his 29th year behind bars in the US on charges of spying for Israel. Speaking exclusively to Arutz Sheva, Woolsey noted that the time Pollard has served already is unprecedented for the crimes…
DetailsBy TOM WILSON, COMMENTARY — Last week, Jonathan Tobin wrote here of how we were on the eve of a fourth Palestinian “no” to a peace agreement. It would appear that has now arrived, albeit slightly sooner than anyone had expected. Many observers assumed that once Secretary of State John Kerry got around to submitting…
DetailsBy DAVID PARSONS, JPOST — The Abrahamic covenant is also the underlying foundation for Israel’s relationship with God and we do well to respect its enduring nature. Photo by: Wikimedia Commons The word of God is “quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword,” (Hebrews 4:12), which means that a misinterpretation or misapplication of…
DetailsThink on this: “For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.”…”Yahweh rebuke you Satan.”…
DetailsBy SOEREN KERN, GATESTONE— The Spanish government has approved a law that would allow descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from the country in 1492 to seek Spanish nationality without requiring them to relinquish their citizenships in other countries. The new law—which was approved by the Spanish cabinet on February 7 and still needs to be…
DetailsBy LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— The Palestinian Authority’s Religious Affairs Minister is now demanding that the Western Wall in Jerusalem must be brought under Palestinian control in any peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 10 News, Minister Mahmoud al-Habash said that “every inch” of territory Israel captured…
DetailsBy EARL COX— In traveling the southeastern region of the United States over the past fifteen years, I have witnessed an increasing presence of women wearing Islamic headscarves as well as full hijab head coverings. This is evidence of an ever-growing number of Muslim residents and an increase in the religious practice of Islam in…
DetailsBy TOVA DVORIN, ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened his weekly cabinet meeting Sunday with a warning to Israel’s enemies. “Our resolute policy against terrorism may be summed up in a single principle: Whoever attacks us or plans to attack us – will bear the consequences,” he stated, responding to last week’s rocket…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— For its decision to pull anchor last Friday on its bid to pass new sanctions on Iran, AIPAC has been accused of slavish devotion to bipartisanship. Although the criticism is not without foundation, it is probably undeserved in this case. AIPAC did not cut and run from the Iran sanctions fight…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— In recent weeks, the level of accusations and counter-clarifications between Israeli Cabinet ministers and White House spokespersons concerning statements made by Secretary of State Kerry seem to be much more emotionally charged even according to Israeli standards. In the latest flare-up, two of Prime Ministers Netanyahu’s Cabinet ministers went even further, lashing…
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